There was a MARBLED GODWIT at Hills Beach on the Basket Island sand bar late today. It fed for about an hour on the rising tide and then flew out over Wood Island, turning south toward the beach side of Biddeford Pool at 3:56 p.m.
Via eBird, I see that Gordon Smith reported a Marbled Godwit on Seawall Beach, Phippsburg, today, and another was seen by Blair Nikula at South Beach, Chatham, Massachusetts. The bird at Hills beach looked a bird of the year and a big female.
At Scarborough marsh today, I saw a gorgeous juvenile STILT SANDPIPER in the pannes off the Eastern Trail (perhaps the same as yesterday by Luke Seitz). The TRICOLORED HERON was there along with a big friendly birder from northern Maine. The few ibises remaining were not close and Glossy. The flats at Pine Point were thick with shorebirds at low tide, a RED KNOT being the highlight along with 3 WHIMBREL. A few ROSEATE TERNS continue there, and one of the five I saw was feeding a juvenile. White-rumped Sandpipers seemed to be in good numbers, and the Semipalmated Plovers were spending more time arguing over mud than feeding in it. I watched an adult Semipalmated Sandpiper wrestle a Nereis, a spectacular and big Annelid worm, that proved too much for it.
Louis Bevier
Fairfield
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